Wilhelm Heinrich Wagner [sic], his wife Anna, and daughter Elisabeth (age 5) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Eva Maria under the command of Skipper Franz Christopher Schröder.
Wilhelm Hein. Manger [sic], his wife Anna, and daughter Elisabeth (age 5¼) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that daughter Elisabeth died en route.
This couple is believed to be the one that settled in Biberstein.
Wilhelm Christian Mannenger [sic], a farmer, and his wife Maria are recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Beauregard in Household No. 1 along with a note that they relocated to the colony of Biberstein in 1768.
The 1767 census records that Wilhelm Christian Mannenger came from the German region of Mecklenburg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Mannenger family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 841.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 194.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #6796.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4399-4401.
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